# For those of us who don't cry. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198 "2002-12-03T12:20:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/1 "2002-12-03T12:20:51Z")
Now I’m not a very emotional guy, or rather I’m a very emotional guy who almost never feels the need to have a physically display of my emotions, but about once ever decade or so there’s a film that gets to me and makes me cry. [Where the Red Fern Grows](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0072402). Saw it in the middle of the night in the early 80s when I snuck out of bed because I couldn’t sleep. A boy and his dead dogs. I was a boy and I had a dead dog. I could’t help myself. [Falling Down](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106856) Another one that kinda mirrored my life. My parents got divorced and my dad ended up moving to Kansas and we very rarely got to see him. It really got to me. I mean it really hit home, I almost turned it off. [LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120737)I teared up when they came out of Moria. I knew he survived but still, I felt there grief. It was a really good scene. What movies have called forth your rarely used waterworks? ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/2 "2002-12-03T13:29:32Z")
I don’t cry, but when I was watching _Dancer in the Dark_… well, there… there was something in my eye… excuse me… ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/3 "2002-12-03T13:51:02Z")
Forrest Gump when Jenny dies. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/4 "2002-12-03T13:57:08Z")
Glitter: when Maria dumps her boyfriend… ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/5 "2002-12-03T14:09:31Z")
From the opening scene to the closing scene in _Now, Voyager_ . . . The finales of _Intolerance_ and _One Way Passage_ . . . ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/6 "2002-12-03T14:10:02Z")
_The Fast and the Furious_\*, when the Camero gets trashed. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/7 "2002-12-03T14:11:09Z")
Toy Story 2: “When She Loved Me.” Randy Newman deserved the Oscar for this one. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/8 "2002-12-03T14:11:12Z")
:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/9 "2002-12-03T14:12:21Z")
:smack: was for my vB error, not for your post, \*_h.sapiens_ ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/10 "2002-12-03T14:13:56Z")
sigh… I’m crying right now. ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/11 "2002-12-03T14:16:16Z")
I become a blubbering mess every time I watch _Truly, Madly, Deeply_. I can’t help it, I’ve never seen anybody cry as much as Juliet Stevenson does in that movie! Well, that’s _my_ excuse and I’m sticking to it. _sniff_ ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/12 "2002-12-03T15:31:28Z")
**Terms of Endearment** **Love Story** **Brian’s Song** **Homeward Bound** ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/13 "2002-12-03T15:44:53Z")
I can’t believe I’m admitting this, but the 1969 musical version of **Goodbye, Mr. Chips** has always made it difficult for me to breathe properly (_my_ equivalent of crying). I have no reasonable explanation for this. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/14 "2002-12-03T15:47:28Z")
Iron Giant. “suuuuuuperman” and The Royal Tenenbaums. “It’s been a rough year, dad.” ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/15 "2002-12-03T16:15:30Z")
**Beaches** of course. Also, the movie about the racehorse **Pharlap**. Ugh, animal movies always get to me. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/16 "2002-12-03T17:06:08Z")
4 words or less: Grave. Of. The. Fireflies. WAAAAHHHHH! ---
**Author:** ![orr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@orr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orr)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/17 "2002-12-03T17:24:44Z")
Another one here for **Dancer in the Dark**. That whole end sequence where… Selma was on Death Row singing “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” into the vent … just tore me up. Bjork really gave a good performance in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/18 "2002-12-03T17:35:04Z")
For some reason, I get the most choked up during baseball movies: **The Natural** , at the end, when the big home run shot fades into the scene of Redford’s character playing catch with the young boy (his son?). **Field of Dreams** , when the Ray Kinsella character asks his dad (or his dad’s ghost), if he wants to “have a catch” (notice a pattern here?), and, earlier, during James Earl Jones’ speech about the greatness of baseball. ::sniff:: Hijack: if you are a baseball fan, you _must_ pick up any of W.P. Kinsella’s baseball novels or short story collections - _Shoeless Joe_ is the novel that **Field of Dreams** is based on, and reading it is like walking through a dreamland. **For Love of the Game** , the whole frigging movie. **Pride of the Yankees** - Gehrig’s speech, of course. I’m not even much of a baseball fan anymore - but I love the game itself. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/19 "2002-12-03T17:46:28Z")
**Showgirls**. She just wants to be a _dancer_, people! Dammit, why can’t they see that! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198/20 "2002-12-03T18:10:51Z")
I can’t think of a movie that ever made me cry. One book did, however: the final chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s **Wild Seed**. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-dont-cry/140198.md?page=2)